köken: From Middle High German heben, heven (rarer heffen), from Old High German heffen, heven, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan. Compare Dutch heffen, English heave, Danish hæve. Doublet of hieven and kapieren. The -b- is regular in the past tense and participle. In Middle High German the paradigm was regularised by spreading -b- to the present tense; reinforced in East Central German by the local…
squat (specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders)